> On Aug 17, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Will Field-Thompson via swift-evolution
> wrote:
>
> I think it would be great to have something like this (at least the
> "Arguments" component) as part of the standard distribution — maybe as a
> corelib rather than as part of the standard library. Seeing as t
If we introduce a new API to parse command-line arguments now, we're committing
to support it for a very long time. It seems to me that this is the kind of
thing that could evolve with the language, so I'm not really in favor of fixing
an implementation now.
Imagine this hypothetical scenario:
I think it would be great to have something like this (at least the
"Arguments" component) as part of the standard distribution — maybe as a
corelib rather than as part of the standard library. Seeing as this is
certainly not in scope for phase 1 of Swift 4, maybe it would be better to
start this a
I want to pitch a command line parsing addition to the standard library and get
feedback before I polish up a full proposal.
Swift is being positioned to fill numerous functions, including as a local
scripting language. I think that’s great but having tried to use it for that
purpose there are
